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The Listening Project: A Poetics of Relation (poems and collages by Alexis Pauline Gumbs): Kriti Sharma: Everyday Ethics
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Wednesday, January 10, 2007. Kriti Sharma: Everyday Ethics. Sometimes you hold words. Suspended between your hands. Like a transplanted honeysuckle. Back to your throat. Sometimes you toss words. High with your eyes. And everyone waits for them. To fall in into the telekenetic place. You're conjuring with the rest. And sometimes you catch words. Low in those blooming hands. Steadied to your focused chin. And safe in your open mind. What I mean to say is. To the miracle of response. Because LOVE gets thre...
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The Listening Project: A Poetics of Relation (poems and collages by Alexis Pauline Gumbs): Nikki Brown: Color (or what it feels like)
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Tuesday, April 17, 2007. Nikki Brown: Color (or what it feels like). When you set your chin. In the spoke of demand. Where the sun is extra. Into the part of the sermon. When no one can tell. Gives our hungry eyes. Here is a healing Mandala that Nikki made with the members of the Katrina Neighbors healing circle that she facilitated. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). The Listening Project: A Poetics of Relation (poems and collages by Alexis Pauline Gumbs). For you in my teeth. Because we have what ...
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The Listening Project: A Poetics of Relation (poems and collages by Alexis Pauline Gumbs): Michelle Lanier: Ribald Farming
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Thursday, April 12, 2007. Michelle Lanier: Ribald Farming. Angels stain the air. When you reach for words. The soil you trace. And birds sound the calling. To water what knows. So i'll curl a streamer. I'll smooth a mound. I'll balance a birthing gourd. Meaning I will cultivate grace daily. Thank you Alexis. This is a priceless gift. It feeds me on this morning. It inspires me to be shown OUR light through poem and image. You make me more beautiful! Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Because LOVE gets t...
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littleblackbook: August 2011
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You know who else is a black star? Monday, August 29, 2011. Break free (everyday) Gratitude Poem #21. After Audre Lorde’s “Parting”. Chisel light into break room. Passed note to whole note break rest to trill. Too past to hold. Too old to break. Cooler under river stone. Trowel truth break ground refine less lime over more time. Ghost right host bit love tongue blood read break skin in. Thin wrap loose chase goosebump into break time. Mine coal ice cold chase fever break even. Sunday, August 28, 2011.
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littleblackbook: March 2013
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You know who else is a black star? Friday, March 08, 2013. We Are the Open We Need: The Need Ensemble Opens Up. The brilliant and brave Brilliance Remastered Need Ensemble. Has me wide open, reaching into my dreams and the dreams of my ancestors. Last night after working with Audre Lorde's Coal and my brother Seneca's teachings about the relationships between dreams, wisdom and nightmares we wrote this poem together. May you be as open to it as you need to be. We Are the Open We Need. Pain i can use, open.
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littleblackbook: June 2012
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You know who else is a black star? Wednesday, June 13, 2012. 3 Big Decades- 3 Tiny Books of Poetry by Alexis Pauline Gumbs. I've decided to celebrate 30 years of being a teeny tiny poet by amplifying my poetic work in a big grown up way. You now (only until the end of June) have the opportunity to buy one, or two or three or several tiny origami folded poetry books by yours truly as part of my fundraiser to publish my chapbook Such Rainbows. Poetry for poetry's sake indeed! To Straight Hair Gone Forever.
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littleblackbook: December 2012
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You know who else is a black star? Friday, December 14, 2012. Long Distance Love for Indigo Journeys: Support 7th Graders in their Black Feminist Brilliance! Greetings loved ones,. The Indigo Afterschool Program. For brilliant black feminists in middle school (inspired by Ntozake Shanges Sassafrass, Cypress and Indigo) here in Durham is evolving into the Indigo Journeys program, a curriculum of visionary black feminist fieldtrips and monument making! Behold the power and creativity of black girls! You ca...
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The Listening Project: A Poetics of Relation (poems and collages by Alexis Pauline Gumbs): UBUNTUMAMAS!
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Monday, June 11, 2007. For the mothers in UBUNTU. Which is the place that screams. Which is the place that glows. Split asymmetrical to exit signs. When the power goes out. Which is the place that opens. Ten times past imagination. Which is the place that stretches. Whom is the light that beckons. When is the space that bends. Why is the broken branch. None of these lines have question marks. The answer is you. The answer is here. The answer is now. The what that remains. Not which but how. Because LOVE ...
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The Listening Project: A Poetics of Relation (poems and collages by Alexis Pauline Gumbs): Afiya Carter: Experiment
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Thursday, April 12, 2007. If a lunge had bells. Or if the universe was made. From the bright small buttons. Of air popping off. Everytime your hand explained. If a house had glass precision walls. Saved just for the breeze. Had a pet door to use. And publicly specialized community. In the backdrop of threedom. If this were all. Meant to be lived. In a corner of the classroom. Where I could watch you. And change my mind. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Because LOVE gets threaded through WORDS, looped ...
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The Listening Project: A Poetics of Relation (poems and collages by Alexis Pauline Gumbs): This Survivor: A Spelling Lesson
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Thursday, April 12, 2007. This Survivor: A Spelling Lesson. For this and every survivor. Is a four-letter word. An instruction after catching fire. A movement behind stop. A command we must memorize. If we would be safe. Is what we do to the kids. At school, at practice, at auntie's. Training for a next that will keep them (running). Warning that they will not be at home anywhere. Treason required by our other jobs. Is what the dj plays. What the hypeman says. The entrance of the beat(ing). For you in my...
